“There was no need actually to have those tastes, provided one talked enough about them”

– Marcel Proust: ‘Swann’s Way’ (Du côte de chez Swann)

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For the uninitiated, ‘Pseuds Corner’ is a long running feature of the UK satirical magazine ‘Private Eye’, which presents examples of egregiously nonsensical pseudo-intellectual tosh. This sort of thing:

One-Liner Wednesday 18 March 2020